Ideas on Building Interactivity in Textiles and Related Fibers

Title	Ideas on Building Interactivity in Textiles and Related Fibers
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2011
Authors	Freed, Adrian [1]
Refereed Designation	Refereed
Conference Name	International Symposium on New Frontiers in Fiber Materials Science
Date Published	08/2011
Publisher	The Fiber Society
Conference Location	Charlston, South Carolina
Abstract	The theme of the symposium, Fibers as Building Blocks of Advanced Material, was emphasized in a special keynote dinner talk where ideas on Building Interactivity in Textiles and Related Fibers were illustrated with different fiber and textile based musical instruments.
URL	http://www.thefibersociety.org/Portals/0/Past%20Conferences/2011_Fall_Abstracts.pdf [2]
Full Text	After a quick review of recent rapid developments in intrinsic fiber and textile sensing and actuation, I demonstrate pressure, stretch, position, acceleration, and multitouch sensors built with paper and textile structures. Their performance will be shown informally by integrating them into functional musical instruments. I close with a vision of how a design theory and practice may be developed for these materials, illustrated with new, folded, and pleated piezoresistive structures that have just begun to be explored.